It is the purpose of this paper to present the results, conclusions and recommendations of the analysis of electronic equipment to provide the optimum system worth, with regard to reliability and performance. Additional parameters set up in the three mathematical regimes are minimum weight, minimum geometric space envelope, schedule time delays, and cost trade-offs. This paper further proposes a m...
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-Missiles with built-in recoverability features have been of interest to most missile firms and many related firms for some time. In order to evaluate the adequacy of recoverable missile performance, it is frequently necessary to answer such questions as, ``With what probability will m such missiles yield a total of N or more successful flights?'' or, ``How many missiles should be allocated to a t...
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The heart of a reliability program for a complex mechanism is early detection of design weaknesses by the performance and analysis of environmental test experiments on prototype or pilot models of major parts of the mechanism. Such a program must be carried out jointly by design engineers, experts in environmental testing, and statisticians thoroughly versed in the practice of experimental design;...
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